The Urban Edge Apartment Living Blog
Musings on living in NYC... oh, and real estate too
I was a huge fan of M. Wells, the short-lived, much-mourned Long Island City diner from Chef Hugue Dufour (late of Montreal and the great Au Pied de Cochon) and his partner Sarah Obraitis. The explosive flavors, the insane creativity of the kitchen, the fun, casual vibe… M. Wells was, for the year or so [...]
Do NYC residents really need another weekly food festival? Between the Hester Street Market on the Lower East Side; Mad Sq. Eats (just opened in the shadow of the Flatiron for a month-long run until October 19); Urbanspace Meatpacking under the High Line; and, of course, the various enterprises from the folks that started it [...]
Rarely have I ever witness a neighborhood embrace a restaurant so quickly and with such love as when Top Chef Dale Talde opened up his namesake Talde last winter in Park Slope. The place was immediately slammed, and eight months later continues to be operating at full capacity, well into the night, with a lively [...]
You can get first-rate smoothies and squeezed-to-order juices all over town these days (no need to go the chains!), so the fact that Melvin’s Juice Box, on the border between Soho and Greenwich Village, sells invigorating concoctions isn’t all that unusual. Except that Melvin of Melvin’s Juice Box is Melvin Major Jr., who perfected his craft [...]
Fans of Italian comfort food will be pleased with the offerings are Galli in SoHo, a recently opened, mid-priced restaurant on Mercer Street.
